Odisha Tribal Girl Who Stopped Her Own Marriage To Meet Smriti Irani In New Delhi

Berhampur: Amid the concern over the falling sex ratio in Odisha in five years, a tribal girl from Kandhamal district’s Phiringia block will be in New Delhi on Tuesday and interact with Union Minister for Woman and Child Development Smriti Irani at a conference to mark International Day of the Girl Child.

Here we are talking about Suprabha Subhadarshini Behera, who stopped her own marriage planned by her parents earlier this year with the help of Childline and the district administration. “I am very excited to meet the Union minister. I will share the difficulties such as poverty, lack of education and child marriage that adolescent girls in our district face,” she told TOI.

The tribal girl has been campaigning against child marriage in her district after completing Class X at Kasturba Gandhi Girls’ School, Chakapad. She then trained in electrical trade course at Daringbadi industrial training institute and is among the six adolescent girls in the country, who are getting non-traditional livelihood training from various institutes.